Half glass of wine each day can help living four or five years longer

The wine is good and extends men's life, so much that half glass a day add 5 years to your life. It seems a spot for some wine association, but the news comes from a Dutch study that has analyzed habits of about 1,400 middle-aged men followed for over 40 years. The study showed that regular drinking a small amount of alcohol increases the longevity. Half glass a day is the right measure: those who do it, can live about four or five years longer than others. Not only. Who consumes up to two glasses of wine, two pints of beer or two doses of spirits a day tend to live about two years longer respect no-drinkers. The researchers from Wageningen University Netherlands analyzed 1374 men of 40 years born between 1900 and 1920, examining up to 2000 habits at table, with alcohol and smoking and body mass index of each one, also recorded the prevalence infarction, stroke, diabetes and cancer group. Well, the study found that wine is a double wire bound with a lower risk of death from all causes. "He who already consume alcoholic beverages should do so in light whilst one or two glasses a day, and preferably of wine," suggests Martinette Streppel, Dutch university nutritionist. "The cardio-protective effects of alcohol and wine only justify a slight consumption in middle-aged men. Drinking in a more heavy, in fact - Streppel added to British newspaper 'Daily Mail' - can lead to accidents, cancer and cirrhosis of the liver. And yet, since the consumption of alcohol dependence can start to drink because of positive effects on health is not advisable. " Researchers have seen that the consumption of no more than 20 grams of alcohol a day - one cup contains about 10 - requires a reduced risk of death by 36% compared to that of teetotalers. And the reduction of the danger increases for those who, among all the possible drinks, like wine. In general, those who drink half a glass of wine a day doc has a 40% reduction in overall mortality and a lower 48% of cardiovascular death. All this translates into a life higher for light drinkers.